The first satellite assembled at the factory, hailed as the first ever made by an African nation, was built mainly in China ...

This week’s Snow Moon, the second full moon of the winter, will appear appropriately colored in red and orange for the ...

Scientists will begin to debate in the coming weeks whether they will need to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that ...

A Nasa-backed company is teaming up with SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk to develop an ’extreme’ space vehicle that ...

In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...

Last year on the day of Christmas, a football sized asteroid passed close to the earth. It was around double the distance ...

Gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a massive object, like a galaxy, warps the fabric of spacetime, bending the light from a more distant background object.

China has begun forming a team of experts to address the threats posed by asteroids and other celestial bodies, Azernews reports ...

This dangerous asteroid will be the target of observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers will use the ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.